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Finally saw The Virgin Suicides this weekend- Barnes and Noble was selling it as a two-dvds-in-one-box thing with American Beauty for $14. I wanted AB, And would have willingly paid that much just for that one, so getting another movie with it was a bonus. I read the book back when I moved to Baltimore, in my summer of many library trips when I had no money to do anything else. It was a pretty decent book, though rather short. The movie was pretty good...I thin it followed the book more closely than any other movie adaptation of a book I've ever seen. The soundtrack was good and the aesthetic was generally rather pretty (except maybe for the party scene at the end, but even that had a sort of twisted, demented beauty to it.)

So...$14 well-spent, and my dvd collection (tiny as it is, there are SO many movies I'd never want to own, and ) gets two additions.